enthrall

Etymology

From Middle English enthrallen, equivalent to en- + thrall.

verb

1. (transitive) To hold spellbound.
   In the center of the circle of glittering black bodies he leaped and roared and shook his heavy spear in the same mad abandon that enthralled his fellow savages. The last remnant of his civilization was forgotten—he was a primitive man to the fullest now; reveling in the freedom of the fierce, wild life he loved, gloating in his kingship among these wild blacks. 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 17, in The Return of Tarzan
2. (transitive, rare) To make subservient.